hiphopdx.com/news/mark-45-king-james-dead
Man made legendary beats

Rest in peace to a legend

Rip legend

R.I.P.

RIP

RIP 🙏

DJ Kool gets the credit but this was 45 King.

A Set it Off favorite.

This is Preemo, Dilla and Pete Rock all in one beat. 45 King was an originator. One of the godfathers of chopping and sampling and his breakbeat series was used by many. RIP.

Rip the king

RIP

When we recorded Stan I worked with a couple different engineers but this particular engineer I had never worked with before. While we were recording the third verse of Stan, he started rolling a joint and asked me if I minded if he smoked while we cut. What was I gonna do? Say no? He was already rolling it so I told him “no problem”. Everything was cool and I had gotten all the way to the last 3 lines and I screwed up so all he had to do was punch in my vocals at the end so I could re-do that line and the verse was finished. Back then we were recording on 2 inch tape, so once you recorded over something it’s gone forever. So I’m in the booth waiting and he backs the tape up all the way to the beginning of the verse and punches me in. I realize he’s in the wrong spot and I can’t hear any of my vocals so I start waving my arms and yelling in the mic to try to get his attention. He doesn’t notice so I run into the control room through a cloud of smoke and yell “Yo, I wanted to keep those vocals” he just looked at me and said “My bad man…you wanna hit this?”

The first half of the verse was GONE. I re-recorded it but you should have heard the original take that s*** was WAY better…oh well!

Just about to post this

RIP to a GOAT producer

Rest Easy Legend.

a legend off the 900 number loop alone

RIP

RIP

rest in peace

No way, RIP. True legend of production going back to the 80s. Stan not even his greatest achievement he really changed the course of hip hop production more than most

RIP

Oh damn, RIP

F***, he was one of my favorite producers growing up

RIP

RIP The 45 King

Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Ilayhi Rajioon